Quote of the Day
Michiganders want common-sense safeguards that protect families and support law enforcement, not reckless policies that create new loopholes for illegal guns. The last thing we should be doing is making it easier for handguns to move through the mail.
Haley Stevens
Michigan U.S. Representative
May 22, 2026
House Democrat introduces bill to block Postal Service from mailing handguns
This was in response to an opinion issued by the DOJ:
A nearly 100-year-old federal ban on mailing handguns through the U.S. Postal Service is unconstitutional and cannot be enforced, according to an opinion released Thursday by the Department of Justice (DOJ).
The 15-page opinion concluded that a 1927 law, which made it illegal to use the Postal Service to mail concealable firearms, such as pistols and revolvers, infringes on the Second Amendment.
I asked for Copilot for clarification on what this bill actually does. The short version is that it is a procedural block of implementing the proposed rule to stop enforcement of the 1927 law. I don’t think it has much chance of passing, but it is still frustrating. The only silver lining is that it is another demonstration these anti-gun politicians have zero regard for the U.S. constitution.
“Michiganders want common-sense.”
“You keep using that word, I think it does not mean what you think it means.”
And I’m sure that if Michiganders actually wanted “common-sense” in their government they would have to hang 80% of it first.
Like most states.
That, and the fact that “common sense government” is an oxymoron.
And of all things possible in the universe of universes. It stands glaringly out as the one impossibility.
A 100 years now? Speedy lot, ain’t they!
As terrible as the USPS has gotten, even if I could, I would never dream of sending a firearm by mail. I’ve had more misdirected and misdelivered mail in the last 3 years than the previous 30 combined.
That said, it should be a personal choice, not a legal prohibition.